LINK: Techincal question first, for anyone who knows: I think I need to be on movable type to do trackback urls, but I was hoping someone who knew could confirm that for me.
On to Will Baude's post on legacy admissions. I'm tempted to disagree, as someone who probably only got in to his prestigious midwestern university as a result of legacy (I might've made it on the basis of my extracurriculars, test scores, and that Eagle Scout thing I did, but I can promise you my grades were not helping me), and have proceeded since to do very well for myself, thanks for asking.
But, as the plural of 'data' is 'anecdotes,' I don't think that qualifies as a rebuttal argument. So I'll go to my default position on college acceptances: a college or university should be permitted to create a freshman class however it likes, so long as it does not exclude any particular group of people we might be offended if they didn't have (i.e., they can choose to not have an art program, but they can't choose not to have Jews).
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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